Financial Analyst, Large Customer Sales, GBO Finance

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges. The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $116000 - $166000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

• Partner with Americas Sales leadership to drive insights and analysis that support the retail business, directly shaping business strategy for Alphabet’s largest and most critical business-generating sector. Because Retail is the cornerstone of Alphabet's commercial portfolio, your guidance will directly influence the company's top-line performance.
• Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis on revenue drivers within Retail and the broader digital commerce ecosystem. Your insights will consistently feed into executive-level dashboards and board reviews, providing the critical data needed to guide decision-making under constant leadership radar.
• Develop and manage sophisticated business reporting and key performance indicator (KPI) frameworks for the retail portfolio.
• Collaborate with Ads Finance, Operations, and Business Intelligence teams to ensure investigative alignment and maintain absolute data consistency across complex, changing global commerce datasets.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or 2 years with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MBA, CFA, or other similar qualification).
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams through strong problem-framing and problem-structuring skills, project management skills.
• Experience working with large datasets and coding languages, database, automation or business intelligence skills (e.g., SQL, Python, R, JavaScript, Python, Tableau, Looker, etc).
• Ability to communicate insights and “so what” to a wide range of stakeholders including technical management teams.
• Desire to structure and solve large, complex, and novel investigative problems.